Chapter 111: Did I come at a bad time?

After taking lessons from his mother, Aoi Natsuki also helped to organize their bedroom together, half a year had not been living in the house, there were many things that needed to be washed and dried, the house would occasionally be cleaned, but in recent times, because of the busyness of his studies plus taking care of Rina, this room did not come in at all, and a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the headboard as well as on the edges of the bed.

“Leave it to me here, it seems like you can’t stop coming back, you need to take some time to do a proper cleaning.” Aoi Ikuko urged her son to go downstairs to cook, Aoi Natsuki thought of the fact that he still had Ryuusakura watching the fire downstairs, so he had no choice but to nod his head and quickly walk down to the first floor.

Just as he stepped through the hallway and into the dining room, he locked eyes with his dad, who was casting a surprised glance at him, and before he could wonder, the aroma of beef wafting from the kitchen drew his attention, and he rushed into the kitchen, pulling out his cell phone, and checking the time, which was almost upon him.

Turn off the heat and let the steam in the pan naturally smother the meat for another five minutes.

On the other hand, he began to cut up the seasonal vegetables, with Ryuusakura on the side assisting in the beat.

Outside the kitchen, Aoi Ryuuya watched the two who were working well together and thought to himself if only Natsuki could like her.

Takahashi Ayano is completely unable to cook, itself when her sister proposed to learn how to cook, she agreed to agree, but then she is only responsible for eating, basically when her sister is not there, she still choose to order takeout, good figure is also because often go out to work as a volunteer, look thin, in fact, her endurance is better than the average boy.

“Do you want to watch cartoons together?”

Lina held up the writing pad, which read.

“Can oh.” Ayano hemmed and hawed, and with both hands, she picked up Rina and trotted off to the living room, skillfully turning on the TV screen and cranking up the anime station.

It could be said that this series of actions really made him more familiar with the house than Ryuya Arai, the master of the house.

“This life surrounded by beautiful girls …… cough …… is really enviable!” Aoi Long also said out of the heart, his son is so charming, he when the father’s natural face, but also as a male, his own young clearly image to be better, how is not a large group of beautiful young girls into my life.

The time is also the destiny!

Suddenly, a crisp doorbell rang outside the door.

Aoi Ryu also cast a glance toward the source of the sound.

And Aoi Natsuki in the kitchen followed closely, it was obvious that he already had a bad feeling in his heart.

Arai Ryuya closed the newspaper, folded it neatly and placed it on the desktop, then got up and walked towards the entrance hall, Arai Natsuki was a bit flustered at this point, and hurriedly admonished Ryuusakura twice before turning back to follow in his dad’s footsteps.

Aoi Ryuuya opened the entrance door and saw a girl standing outside the iron gate from a distance of seven or eight meters.

“Yes ……”

At that moment Aoi Natsuki also came out, and before his dad could ask, he ran to open the door first.

There’s no mistaking this backstory.

Natsuki Aoi breathed a sigh of relief.

“Hayakawa, it’s you.”

Hayakawa Keiko had just been thinking in her mind about what would be a good opening line to use when she met Natsuki later, when he suddenly appeared in front of her, instantly shattering all the visions she had just had.

“Uh, well ……,” Keiko Hayakawa darted her head down, a paper bag still in her hand.

Aoi Ryu followed suit and leaned over, joining Natsuki in focusing on the newly appeared girl in front of him at the first opportunity.

The looks weren’t as stunning as the two girls in the room, but they were equally sweet and small, but very dressy feeling.

High-waisted flax-colored flared pants, with a pair of clean white canvas shoes, the upper half of the black and white striped knitwear extra thin, clothes tucked into the waist head, which looks obviously only one meter five girls, wearing a one meter six sense of vision.

Outside a medium-length thin down jacket, the cap looks like pure wool, the whole very fluffy, the right shoulder also carries a dark orange bucket bag, can be said to be quite sophisticated daily wear.

“Friend?” Arai Ryuu also looked back at his son.

Natsuki Arai looked at her dad, who was picking at the doorway and bending over to speak a little carefully, and then said, “Well, a friend, too.”

“Eh……” Hayakawa was quite surprised in the face of the middle-aged man who suddenly appeared, covering his mouth and retreating half a step back.

This made Arai Ryuuya’s heart pound.

Aoi Natsuki then explained, “My friend is just a bit scared of being born, it’s nothing to do with you dad. Hayakawa, this is my dad, today is the day my parents just got back from their business trip.”

“Yes, it’s like this ……” Hayakawa’s eyes fluttered, unsure of where to look, his hand tightly clutching the paper bag turning red and white, “Uncle, uncle good… …”

“Hello, Hayakawa is it? Then please come in as well, it’s cool outside.” Ryuuya Arai hurriedly made way, pulling his son to his side as soon as he could, before inviting her in.

Hayakawa Keiko was so shy that she couldn’t speak, it was surprising that she would suddenly meet Natsuki’s parents while she was looking for him, then the nature of this would be completely different!

Just, just follow ……

She tried to keep from rambling.

Sight was intent on the balcony doors in the garden, attempting to seek Lina’s help there.

Aoi Long also walked with his son in front, he also felt that this girl seems to be particularly constrained, then leaned over to his son’s ear: “This girl looks quite good, just a little shy.”

“Dad, don’t talk about people this close, they’ll be heard.”

“Ah, it seems like, ears are redder than they were just now ……”

The three of them returned to the dining room and a warmth rushed up to the soles of their shoes; geothermal heat really is a winter nemesis.

Hayakawa made it all the way to the door of the dining room when he then noticed that there were other people in there, in the living room there was Ayano, and peeking forward into the kitchen, Ryuusakura, who was stir-frying with an apron on inside, was also particularly conspicuous.

Phew ……

Seeing an acquaintance instantly soothed her.

“Have a seat.”

“Yes!” Keiko Hayakawa tensed up again, carrying the paper bag in both hands and finding a chair to sit in.

“Hayakawa, are you bringing anything else here?” Ryuya Arai asked, looking at the paper bag in her hand.

Hayakawa bites his lower lip and nods blankly, resting the paper bag on the table, his voice like a gnat, “Last, last time, Natsuki gave, gave me a bottle of plum sauce, so, I, my father asked me to prepare a return gift.”

“Eh, but the plums I made the plum sauce with were themselves a gift from you, so that’s a bit too polite of your father.” Aoi Natsuki looked surprised.

And then he looks at his dad and he’s got that “what a good boy” look on his face, again? You think every girl is good, don’t you?

“Hayakawa! Oh, you’re here too!” Ayano in the living room also noticed her coming and greeted her warmly, after all, currently Hayakawa is her own exclusive manga artist assistant, so who can she love if not her?

“Awwww!”

Lina hadn’t seen the house this busy in a long time, and excitedly held the doll in her hands aloft and chanted.

The whole family has a happy atmosphere.

Hayakawa also felt Natsuki’s father’s enthusiasm in the subsequent ten minutes or so of conversation, it can be said that in him, she saw the shadow of her own father, originally, she had always thought that Aoi’s parents did not come back to visit for so long on a business trip, may be more career-oriented, but now at a glance, Natsuki’s father is a particularly active person na.

A smile gradually appeared on Hayakawa Keiko’s face, and her state was not as formal as it seemed just now.

When it was time for dinner, Aoi Natsuki also gave Rina a chance to go upstairs and call her mom downstairs for dinner.

Lina, who had long liked Natsuki’s mom in her heart after what happened in the car, immediately agreed, picked up her writing pad, and rushed out at a fast pace.

The last dish on the table, stewed for more than an hour of beef, completely cooked, the whole soup color has taken on a deep red, quite viscous, just look very delicious.

Ikuko Arai arrived late, holding Rina’s hand, and walked into the dining room while her eyes fell on the newly appeared strange girl.

How come there’s another one?

She glanced at her son with suspicious eyes, and Natsuki Arai had to shrug helplessly.

“Hey.” She then sighed and didn’t ask anything more, after all, her son had grown up.

Ryuuya Arai greeted his wife and sat beside him, introducing Hayakawa as well, while highlighting the fact that the girl was also Natsuki’s alumni.

Almost on the verge of telling Ikuko an exact replica of what Hayakawa had just said.

Hayakawa Keiko’s red face, because she felt the majestic full stance on Aoi’s mother, and in her heart, she was very worried that there would be any sentence that she would hear that would give her a bad impression, after all, after all, this is Natsuki’s parents ah! If they were to be disliked by them ……

Hayakawa had a funny way of blushing, it would go all the way up to his ears and even to his neck, like he was allergic.

Her short, combed hair clung to the sides of her cheeks, and with a slight bow of her head, she was able to cover her features well.

The next few people began to eat their mid-day meal.

“Dad, Lena can eat by herself, she’s eight, not four.”

“Huh? Sorry, sorry, couldn’t help it when I saw how cute Rina was.” Arai Ryuya cocked his head and smiled, trying to be cute, “Ne?”

“Well!” Lina responded with a similar tilt of her head.

Dad’s still a really old kid who can’t grow up.

“Hayakawa, how is Natsuki doing in school?” Aoi Ikuko suddenly asked.

“Very, very nice, happy to help, and a considerable improvement in academics ……”

“Speaking of studying, Hayakawa should be good at studying, right? What’s the approximate grade level?”

“It’s kind of good, last time I took the monthly test then, the grade was ranked twenty-one.”

“Oh, that can’t be called good anymore, it’s excellent, I remember Rindo High School’s score line isn’t that low, so Hayakawa your future college aspirations are ……”

Ikuko Arai is very concerned about academics.

“So well, need to see the score line at the time, I would favor Keio University ……”

“Eh?”

When she said that, not only did Aoi Ikuko gasp in surprise, even Aoi Natsuki immediately raised her head.

Hayakawa didn’t know what was going on and hurriedly watched their expressions from side to side, she thought she had said something wrong.

The next second Aoi Ikuko covered her mouth with her hand and laughed out gracefully before saying, “That’s quite a coincidence, I used to graduate from Keio in college, do you have a specialization you’d like to take now?”

“Well, I want to get into the literature department.”

“Wow, that score line isn’t low, you’ll have to work harder then, Hayakawa.” After learning about Hayakawa’s situation, Aoi Ikuko’s original stance loosened up, while also displaying extraordinarily affinity.

All of a sudden, they left the other two girls out in the cold instead, but fortunately, these two girls, one with a big heart and the other a natural nerd, didn’t take it to heart, and continued to chuck in their food and eat.

On the contrary, Aoi Ryuu also smelled a bad odor, in his eyes, although Hayakawa is a good girl, but in most of the conditions, Long Sakura is complete victory over Hayakawa, he still hope that Long Sakura can become Natsuki’s girlfriend in the future.

But the kid’s mom seems to be more attracted to Hayakawa ……

He stole a glance at his wife, his face still looking flat.

You’re a father who is really worried about your child.

This wouldn’t work, Dragon Sakura had to be made to raise her favor in the child’s mother’s heart.

“Dragon Sakura, where do you go to school now?”

“I took a break from school two years ago to come back and help my grandfather run the martial arts school, to be precise, my current education is only a middle school graduate.” Long Sakura said matter-of-factly.

As soon as Aoi Ryuuya heard this, his heart went cold, which pot he was in! Now Ryuusaku’s evaluation in the child’s mom’s heart is going to be low again.

Aoi Natsuki, who was sitting on the opposite side of the table, watched his dad’s expression change, and quickly guessed his little mind, dad this does not know anything, what is always blindly busy.

He didn’t say a word, just shook his head gently, cupped his rice bowl, and furiously stuffed it with two mouthfuls of rice.

Suddenly, a second doorbell rang in his ears.

This time Aoi Natsuki really couldn’t hold it together.

Because at the same moment, almost everyone shifted their eyes to him.

Is it because you’re sitting closest to the hallway? Well, it must be.

Dad’s sight was undoubtedly the most burning, and Natsuki Arai was afraid that if she knew how to listen to her heart, she would be twenty sentences away by now.

The whole table became silent at the sound of the doorbell.

Seeing before her dad moves, Natsuki Arai puts down her dishes first, “I’ll get the door.”

Get up and walk to the hallway.

One by one, on days when they shouldn’t be here.

Aoi Natsuki began to pray in her heart at this point that it would be best if it would be a courier or a delivery man at the wrong address or a missionary hobo out there.

He placed his hand on the handle of the basement door and let out a long breath, then opened the door.

The first thing he noticed was Sakurajima Apricot in the doorway who was hailing hot air towards his palm.

Good lord, it’s over.

After seeing him open the door, Sakurajima Apricot also raised her right hand from afar, spreading her five fingers and presenting a wave-like greeting to him, the smile on her face as beautiful as one.

“Hey.” Natsuki Aoi poked out his breath and stepped away from the door, the brisk cold wind pouring into his collar and he shivered as the cold switched with the heat and his body was reaching a marvelous balance of comfort.

“What brings you here?”

Natsuki Arai opened the iron door.

Sakurajima Apricot lightly raised her eyebrows, hearing the difference in the tone, and then she stepped into the iron door with one foot, her eyes squinted away in the direction of the balcony, and her penetrating voice drilled into Aoi Natsuki’s eardrums.

“What? Did I come at a bad time?”